Some House Democrats Are Furious with Maxine Waters, May Vote to Censure Her

April 20, 2021

As House Republicans demand Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California be censured for comments that drew a rebuke from the judge overseeing the Derek Chauvin trial, Fox News reported some Democrats might join in.

During a Saturday appearance in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center to show support for protesters, Waters referenced the trial of Chauvin, who is facing murder and manslaughter charges in connection with the death of George Floyd last year while in the custody of Minneapolis police.

“We’re looking for a guilty verdict,” Waters said. “And if we don’t, we cannot go away … we’ve got to get more confrontational.”

Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill rejected a defense motion to declare a mistrial due to the comments, according to KSTP-TV, but vented his exasperation in court on Monday.

“This goes back to what I’ve been saying from the beginning. I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function,” he said, noting the comment could be fodder for a defense appeal to throw out whatever verdict is rendered in the case.

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ISIS executes Coptic businessman in Egypt, sends message to ‘all crusaders in the world’

April 20, 2021

Church, family mourn death: ‘A saint in the highest places of heaven’

Islamic State-linked terrorists killed a Coptic Christian man kidnapped in November and two others in Egypt, as Christians and those who support the Egyptian army continue to face terror in the Sinai region.

A 13-minute video circulated by Islamic State media platforms Saturday showed Nabil Habashi Salama, a 62-year-old businessman and member of Egypt’s minority Coptic Orthodox Church, being shot in the head by a terrorist in the desert.

A video screenshot showed Salama kneeling with his head down as the three militants stood behind him holding rifles with their faces blurred out.

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“As for you Christians of Egypt, this is the price you are paying for supporting the Egyptian army,” a militant was quoted as saying in the video.

The released video also showed two young Sinai tribesmen being shot and killed in the desert by masked militants, who accused them of fighting alongside the Egyptian military, according to Agence France Presse.

The militants used the video to send a message to “all crusaders in the world,” Egypt Today reports.

“As you kill, you will be killed, and as you capture, you will be captured,” a militant was quoted as saying.

On Monday, Egypt’s interior ministry confirmed that it killed the three “terrorist elements” linked to the Coptic man’s execution after an “intense firefight” with security forces. A search is on for other suspected members of the terror cell.

The statement said the suspected terrorists had plans to carry out terror operations against homes and Coptic houses of worship, according to AFP. The ministry noted that security forces found a suicide belt and hand grenade in the militants’ possession.

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Dershowitz: Maxine Waters’ Tactics Similar to Those Used by Ku Klux Klan

April 20, 2021

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) was clearly trying to influence the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial when she traveled to Minnesota and said Chauvin should be found guilty, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz charged on Tuesday.

“Her message was clearly intended to get to the jury—‘If you will acquit or if you find the charge less than murder, we will burn down your buildings. We will burn down your businesses. We will attack you. We will do what happened to the witness—blood on their door,’” he said during an appearance on Newsmax, referring to how the former home of defense expert Barry Brodd was recently vandalized.

“This was an attempt to intimidate the jury. It’s borrowed precisely from the Ku Klux Klan of the 1930s and 1920s when the Klan would march outside of courthouses and threatened all kinds of reprisals if the jury ever dared convict a white person or acquit a black person. And so, efforts to intimidate a jury should result in a mistrial with the judge, of course, wouldn’t grant a mistrial because then he’d be responsible for the riots that would ensue, even though it was Waters who was responsible,” Dershowitz added.

Waters told a crowd in Brooklyn Center, just outside of Minneapolis, over the weekend that they should “get more confrontational” if a guilty verdict isn’t handed down.

“We’re looking for a guilty verdict and we’re looking to see if all of the talk that took place and has been taking place after they saw what happened to George Floyd,” she also said. “If nothing does not happen [sic], then we know that we got to not only stay in the street but we have got to fight for justice.”

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill, the judge overseeing the trial of Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing Floyd, told the court on Monday he was aware of Waters’ statements.

Cahill rejected a motion from Chauvin’s lawyer for a mistrial. However, he told the lawyer that he could submit articles about the remarks for an “appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned.”

Eric Nelson, the lawyer, had argued that Waters was making “threats against the sanctity of the jury process” and “threatening and intimidating the jury” into delivering a guilty verdict against his client.

Epoch Times Photo — Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) joins demonstrators in a protest outside the Brooklyn Center police station in Brooklyn Center, Minn., on April 17, 2021. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

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‘Trying To Create A Civil War’: Calls Grow For Maxine Waters To Be Punished Over Alleged Incitement

April 20, 2021

Backlash continued to grow against Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) on Sunday over remarks that she made late Saturday night where she encouraged activists to “get more confrontational” on “the street” if Derek Chauvin is not convicted of murdering George Floyd.

“We’re looking for a guilty verdict. We’re looking for a guilty verdict. And we’re looking to see if all of this [inaudible] that took place and has been taking place after they saw what happened to George Floyd,” Waters said. “If nothing does not happen, then we know that we’ve got to not only stay in the street, but we’ve got to fight for justice, but I am very hopeful and I hope that we’re going to get a verdict that will say guilty, guilty, guilty. And if we don’t, we cannot go away.”

When asked about what activists should do if Chauvin is not convicted, Waters said that they must “stay on the street.”

“And we’ve got to get more active. [We’ve] got to get more confrontational,” she said. “[We’ve] got to make sure that they know we mean business.”

In 2018, Waters called for the harassment of Trump administration officials, saying in part at a toy drive:

And so, let’s stay the course. Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.

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Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor Families Ask Black Lives Matter Where Money Went

April 20, 2021

The families of Michael Brown and Breonna Taylor — two of the iconic victims in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement — are questioning the funding of the movement, with Taylor’s family calling the Louisville, Kentucky BLM branch a “fraud.”

Earlier this month, when the New York Post reported Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors had bought four homes since 2016, New York City area Black Lives Matter leader Hawk Newsome called for “an independent investigation.”

Those concerns are now being amplified by other figures within the movement, after Khan-Cullors defended her real estate purchases last week as part of her effort to support her family, and claimed her wealth was not due to the organization itself.

The Washington Examiner‘s Joseph Simonson reported Monday:

[O]n Thursday, the mother of Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed by police during a raid in March 2020, charged that the movement in her city of Louisville, Kentucky, is nothing more than a scam.
“I have never personally dealt with BLM Louisville, and personally have found them to be fraud,” Tamika Palmer wrote on Facebook.

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Irvine Directs $42 Million in COVID-Relief Funds Toward Park Repairs

April 20, 2021

The City of Irvine is considering spending 80 percent of its federal COVID-19 relief funds on improvements to a local park.

It received $53 million from the American Rescue Plan, a pandemic stimulus package, and will discuss during an April 27 meeting whether to put $42 million of that money toward Heritage Community Park upgrades.

According to a staff report, improvements to the park would include rebuilding the community center, expanding the fine arts center, adding parking and shade structures, expanding sports courts, and reconfiguring the pond with water features.

Councilmember Anthony Kuo said he was surprised and disappointed Heritage Park was on the staff report, adding that he directed staff that the money should be spent on one-time expenses, since it is a one-time grant.

Kuo said he would like to see the city use the money to waive certain fees for residents.

“Newport Beach as an example, they actually waived business license fees for a year for their city,” Kuo said. “If we chose to do that in Irvine, that would be at a cost of about $1 million a year to us.”

About a month ago, the city waived fees for youth sports programs, and Kuo said he could see some of the money going to fund that.

“That was something that we thought was hitting the pocketbooks of families throughout town,” he said. “And so really, these dollars, while one of the components that the federal government has said is it can be used as revenue replacement to offset revenue decreases, we really want to have these revenues impact the local residents and the local families as much as possible.”

Councilmember Larry Agran put out his own memo of what he thought the city should spend the money on. His suggestions included establishing a city hall office of public health, an office of small business assistance, an office of emergency housing assistance, and more.

Kuo said he disagreed with most of the ideas on Agran’s memo and that Agran put out the document for purely political purposes.

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Vaccine Passports Could Easily Bring China’s Social Credit System to America

April 20, 2021

Before most football seasons, news that you might be restricted from attending a Buffalo Bills game might actually be a small mercy.

But we are living in interesting times, and with the Bills as one of the early favorites to compete for Super Bowl LVI, news out of Buffalo that proof of full vaccination will be required to attend Bills home games is raising eyebrows.

Has there ever been a time in history when we have trusted technology companies less than we do today, both with our information and to do the right thing?

A vaccine passport, pure and simple, is the state working with powerful technology companies to determine whether you will have the documentation to fit into a certain class of people. That class of people is those who have been fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.

Eric J. Purchase, managing partner of nearby Erie, Pennsylvania, law firm, Purchase, George & Murphey, sees vaccine passports as potentially legally complex.

“While many in our area see attending a Bills game as a constitutional right, it’s not, no matter how awesome they are. However, where people will be denied participation in constitutionally protected activities, such as attending a religious service or a public demonstration, because they refuse to obtain or present a vaccine passport, the courts are bound to strike this down.”

The problems with vaccine passports do not begin or end with the law. The issue is really how much trust we have left in large tech companies.

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Media Lies Exposed: Officer Sicknick And The False ‘Insurrection’ Narrative (Video)

April 20, 2021

Yesterday’s final report by Washington, DC’s chief medical examiner that Capitol Hill Police Officer Brian Sicknick did not die from being beaten with a fire extinguisher – a claim echoed throughout the mainstream media – but rather died from “natural causes” the day after the January 6th melee at the Capitol has destroyed the MSM narrative that an armed and deadly insurrection had taken place.

Will the media apologize for lying repeatedly for months? Will they be held to account for their lies? What is truth? Today on the Liberty Report:

Fact Check the Left: Was Daunte Wright Stopped by Police Because of a Car Air Freshener?

April 20, 2021

The air freshener has become a symbol in the tragic shooting of Daunte Wright. Wright was shot and killed by police in Brooklyn Center outside of Minneapolis on April 11 during a traffic stop gone bad. It’s sparked waves of unrest in the area that’s already a tinder box over the Derek Chauvin trial. Chauvin is the officer who was involved in the death of George Floyd last year that sparked a whole summer of mayhem from leftist thugs. Now, with his trial wrapping up this week, the area has to deal with yet another officer-involved death.

Kim Potter was the police officer who shot and killed Wright after mistaking her service weapon for a taser. It’s all captured on video. The question is how? Potter is a 20-plus year veteran on the force, and she trains rookie officers. She resigned from the police department and later charged with second-degree manslaughter. She made a mistake, yes—but that’s not a get-out-of-jail card.

Yet, Wright’s mother said her son was pulled over for having an air freshener on his rearview mirror. It was one of the last conversations she had with her son. It’s becoming a rallying cry for the liberal masses, but is it true? From the outside, you’d think so, as the fences protecting the Brooklyn Center Police Department are littered with them.

VERDICT: Not True. Wright was pulled over for having expired tags. Yes, an air freshener was also noted during the stop, but it was the tags that caused the traffic stop. Upon running his records, it was discovered that Wright had skipped out on a court date concerning a weapons charge which led to officers attempting to arrest him. You know the rest. The Associated Press and NBC News all noted the expired tags as the reason for the stop. Prior to his resignation, police chief Tim Gannon mentioned this already as well. This is not some outlier explanation.

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Psaki Fails To Condemn Rep. Waters’ Call To Violence

April 20, 2021

White House spokesperson Jen Psaki failed to condemn Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) over her recent call to violence in Minnesota.

“Congresswoman Maxine Waters said over the weekend that we’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational, we’ve got to make sure they know that we mean business. Does the president agree with what she said about getting more confrontational?” a reporter asked Psaki.

“Well I can speak to the president’s view, he has been very clear that he recognizes the issue of police violence,” Psaki responded.

In a news briefing on Monday, Psaki evaded the direct question about Waters and chose to accuse the police of violence and racism. She also signaled support for far-left terror groups Antifa and BLM.

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